+Eckington Posted September 26, 2004 Share Posted September 26, 2004 I am sure that, given today's weather, some of you have been out placing caches , however I have not been able to get onto the review queue to find out for some reason . I keep getting a "server error" "too busy" report. Iam afraid this will hold things up a little Cheers and Cache Well, Eckington Quote Link to comment
Deego Posted September 26, 2004 Share Posted September 26, 2004 excuses excuses Quote Link to comment
+John Stead Posted September 26, 2004 Share Posted September 26, 2004 Only one cache today - but it took almost as long to log it as it took to find - GC seems clogged up! Quote Link to comment
adrianjohn Posted September 26, 2004 Share Posted September 26, 2004 Yup it hard to get in tonight, I dont know if it was a back door way in, but I looked at another cachers profile from an email link and then worked my way to the pages where I could log my caches found today. Quote Link to comment
+Bill D (wwh) Posted September 26, 2004 Share Posted September 26, 2004 It's been slow for me too, though not as slow as it has been sometimes recently. Quote Link to comment
+Flyfishermanbob Posted September 26, 2004 Share Posted September 26, 2004 Can't Review A Thing........ Yip ........ nothing new there then ...... ( the Devil made me say it................. sorry ) Quote Link to comment
+Flyfishermanbob Posted September 26, 2004 Share Posted September 26, 2004 There goes my next cache .;... Quote Link to comment
+kbootb Posted September 27, 2004 Share Posted September 27, 2004 Went for a walk today (non-caching ) and saw about 10 likely locations. Lucky I was too lazy to place them wasn't it? Quote Link to comment
+Eckington Posted September 27, 2004 Author Share Posted September 27, 2004 There goes my next cache .;... ...Oh No, not just the next one, maybe the next......... Anyway, all sorted this morning Quote Link to comment
Lactodorum Posted September 29, 2004 Share Posted September 29, 2004 See what happens when I go away Never mind folks, I'm back from my hols now so hopefully between Eckington and I normal service will be resumed. My thanks to Ecks for holding the fort while I've been away. (p.s. My thanks too, to everyone who placed caches in Nortumberland for me to find ) Quote Link to comment
+Team GPSaxophone Posted September 29, 2004 Share Posted September 29, 2004 Good thing I didn't fly to England over the weekend and place a cache there Quote Link to comment
+Birders Posted September 29, 2004 Share Posted September 29, 2004 (edited) As a Premium Member I'm singularly unimpressed with geocaching.com - and I've told them so. Bren Edited September 29, 2004 by Birders Quote Link to comment
+Pooter Posted September 29, 2004 Share Posted September 29, 2004 (edited) As someone who is responsible for a website that is in danger of being overwhelmed by its poularity, I have a great sympathy for Geocaching.com. We have a budget of tens of thousands of pounds to get our site sorted out and its still taking weeks more than I'd hoped to bring more servers on line. Don't forget that Geocaching.com relies on voluntary contributions to do anything. Edited September 29, 2004 by Pooter Quote Link to comment
+klaus23 Posted October 1, 2004 Share Posted October 1, 2004 (edited) As a Premium Member I'm singularly unimpressed with geocaching.com - and I've told them so. Bren This is exactly what I thought recently. By the way, the site does not rely entirely on voluntary contributions as they raise unknown amounts of revenue through diverse advertising, and they also run a profitable shop, again supported by members who buy the stuff. Without access to site, which is unfair to members, there is nothing. And having it down for hours on end must be annoying to people who are out in the sticks looking for caches and log on to the site remotely needing hints etc. If it's a commercial enterprise, then we, the "Premium" members, and the people who buy stuff from the shop, and the other cachers who don't contribute financially but find and place caches, therefore promoting the game - we are the customers, and deserve to have a functioning website to use. Claiming that "poor geocaching.com" is underfunded does not cut the mustard with me. And I also feel sorry for the volunteers that act as moderators. They deserve to get paid for what they do, after all, without them the whole thing would not work. Edited October 1, 2004 by klaus23 Quote Link to comment
+wildlifewriter Posted October 2, 2004 Share Posted October 2, 2004 All of this presupposes that the recent stability problems at gc.com derive from a shortage of finance, or lack of spending on IT infrastructure. Yet J.I. is on record (elsewhere in these forums) as saying that this is not the case. Which is remarkable, when you think about it: if gc.com needed money, they could easily raise it by a funds appeal to the wider membership - and yet this hasn't happened. Anyone who has held a senior position in the IT industry (as I have) knows that throwing cash at a problem does not always (or even usually) fix it. And anyone who expects 24/7, 100% reliability from a website, doesn't know anything about IT at all... Quote Link to comment
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